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An abuse report from me just for all the complaining. Don't you think there are more important things to do on this site.
Go on, trash me! It doesn't matter I'll just open another account and help where I can.

The other option would be to completely resign, which is not an option for me.

We know what SPAM is. What you are talking about is abuse. There is a difference and the constant complaining about reputation points is not helping the cause.
Feel free to report me, as I don't care about my reputation points. I wouldn't care if they would be taken away (authority points excluded).
You are an accomplished author here on CP and shouldn't really care about anything else. Your articles speak for themselves, so just ignore the noise about the rest.

What is really funny to me, is that out of the 'countless' posts you're talking about. Probably a handful are really complaining, the rest are side jokes or follow up comments. Ultimately, I believe you're blowing this out of proportion.

And, no. I won't report/down vote/etc. you or anyone based on emotion. That isn't my style. I reserve it for what it is intended.

I posted initially because I saw someone (or potentially multiple people) abusing something that was intended to be used for good. But rather they were ruining the community aspect of this site that adds so much to it over others like it.

So my employer sends out 10,000 emails about our revised drug policy.
We're all invited to pop on over to the HR site and read it.

Okay, first off, just because you caught someone snorting a line in the restroom doesn't mean you have to waste inumerable hours of employee time - just fire the guy who did it already. Does anyone really think that getting drunk at work or shooting heroin in the stairwell is okay? My stars how much time is wasted on this stuff. I mean, you actually wrote a drug policy? For stuff that's already illegal? Who is justifying their job with stuff?

Don't talk to me about f***ing HR/Training. Try working in the finance industry, I have at least 5 MANDATORY training WOFTAMs EVERY year. The same thing, money laundering - relevant for the front line personnel, total waste of time for the geek programming in the back office. Data security, 100% on the test for the LAST 7 years, of course I know data security, I live and breathe the bloody stuff!

I had a thread moved earlier this week (about the Boston Tea Party). I wish Chris would implement the "Moved" indicator that links to where the thread in its new location. I saw no reason for it to be moved other than maybe there's a new upper limit to ho many posts can be made in a thread before it triggers super double secret the "thread-is-so-long-that-it-must-be-political" thread moving code.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010-----You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010-----"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

I don't yet know the final outcome, but last night my lady called with a problem; on starting her Win7 machine yesterday, it went immediately to "installing updates." After 5 hours, it was still installing Update 2 of 5! I know these things sometimes get lost, so - with little hope of success - I suggested that she reboot to see if it had somehow got lost. As expected, on restarting the damned thing resumed the frozen installation at Installing Update 2 of 5. As of midnight last night, after some 8 hours, it was still installing the same update!

I haven't heard from her today, but I've got a baaaadddd feeling about this... Has anyone heard of an unusually large update released this week? Or can I look forward to spending my weekend rebuilding her machine?

On the bright side, I recently gave her a WD Passport device, which she used to do a full backup. Smart lady!

I have actually had that happen to my wife's pc(funny how I never have any problems on my machine..). And sadly I have no brilliant insight to a cure. I just forced a restart a couple of times and it finally worked.

Beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder

Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow.

Hardly. I'm using Windows RT on my Surface and Windows 8 on a 4-year-old notebook (non-touchscreen) and am quite pleased with it. My wife also has a Surface and wants me to upgrade her notebook to Win 8 as well. And she's not an IT person.

Good grief, John, it's the Start menu! If you're using desktop apps, you're only going to see the tiles when you need to launch an app (at least once you're at the desktop). But if you're satisfied with Windows 7, no one is forcing you to upgrade.
I didn't really expect you to be one of the hand-wringers over the new (and improved in my opinion) design since the desktop is still there.

That's for sure.
That said, I fail to see the reason for people's angst over the new Start screen. If you spend your time at the desktop, you're really not going to notice it much -- again, only when you go to start an app that you haven't pinned to the taskbar. I realized that I'm officially a fanboi at this point, but I'm also a desktop user, for app development at least, and am satisfied (to say the least) with Windows 8 on my non-touch, 4-year-old, notebook.